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Author: Sarah Potter Writes

Sarah is a British eccentric who writes offbeat fiction, haiku and tanka poetry. She's into nature, gardening, and natural health. Her sociability is something that happens in short bursts with long breathing spaces in between.
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Most rare indeed! I’m glad you loved the twist. The weather is middling here. I’ve had to go back to wearing a coat out walking this week. Slightly cool. The odd shower. But the garden is looking very pretty, even under those grey skies. It’s good to have customers. May they keep calling you 🙂

I didn’t find it very easy at first, but have kept practicing. It takes me an hour or two to knock each story into shape. “The Deal” started out as 197 words in length, which meant I had almost halve it. This involved a great deal of contemplation about what its core elements were and what was padding. Your writing is much more literary than mine, which probably makes it harder to condense down as every word as it hatches is beautiful and necessary!

A sad story of how he has been taking for a ride but apparently it is one ride he seems not to mind at all as long as he gets his…
Beautifully crafted right from the opening line. A pleasure, as is always, Sarah.

Ah.. this reminds me a bit of the film Nikita… I guess that the secret organizations are always looking for the special talents… I’m sure he can get Pizza and call himself CuddlyBear if he does the right things.

I’ve not seen that film. I did watch the film “Catch Me If You Can”, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, which was the true story of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr, who ended up working for the FBI to catch other con artists.

Dear Rochelle,
I need to check out that movie, as haven’t seen it.
The character has fascinated me, too. He might have to appear in a novel one day even, as I keep on thinking about him, so you never know…
All best wishes,
Sarah

Thank you, Sandra 🙂 I like that description of “poetically sinister”. Sadly, people like Humphrey, who are naive on one level and brilliant on another, are magnets for those who like to manipulate and exploit.